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...fresh out of the high school oven. All of you are intelligent, qualified and talented. Emotionally, however, you can be in one of two places. Some of you say, "Hey, I was valedictorian. I was captain of the basketball team. I was president of the student council. Boy, should I be here." The other group says: "I know I was valedictorian. I know I was star of the tennis team. I know I was the head of the school paper--but so was everybody else in my class. What am I doing here...
When Curtis "C.J." Mahoney '00 and his co-valedictorian from Russell High School second the nomination from the courthouse steps in the small midwestern town, it will be the first time the gesture has been made from outside the convention center, according to C.J. Mahoney's mother, Joyce A. Mahoney...
Along with his philosophy of judicial restraint, Scalia boasts a resume bursting with brilliance (valedictorian at Georgetown, a Law Review editor at Harvard, esteemed law professor at the University of Chicago) and a reputation for gregariousness and charm. So in 1986 the Reagan Administration believed that the 50-year-old circuit court of appeals judge was the perfect candidate to lead a new conservative majority on the high court into the 21st century. That he was an Italian-American father of nine whose appointment would please an ethnic constituency was a bonus. At the time, Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone...
...Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, citing recent Dewar's Scotch and Southern Comfort campaigns in such youth-culture bibles as Details and Rolling Stone. Shapiro says Seagram has taken "great pains that our advertising doesn't appeal to or aim at children," an iffy claim during a campaign that uses "Valedictorian" as a punch line. Why violate the ad ban? Market share. Hard liquor is slipping, and TV is where tomorrow's customers...
There are those who use raw elbow grease to be valedictorian, and there are those who use elbow grease plus lawyer's fees. At New York City's Bayside High School graduation last week, PAIGE GOODMAN (top) and LISA CAMILLERI were named co-valedictorians. But Goodman, whose GPA is 0.05 point higher, found this unacceptable. "I'm senior-class president," Goodman told the New York Times. "I feel like I've been slapped in the face after I've done so much for the school." When the Board of Education said the two should share the honor, Goodman sued...